An advertisement for war bonds by Dr. Seuss. A complete collection of his War-time cartoons may be found in the book "Dr. Seuss Goes to War" This was propaganda to advertise people to get insurance by using Hitler as the bad guy so people will want to insure their houses.
This photo made me surprised because this propaganda was found in children's book. I never knew that Dr. Seuss was part of this. It was intresting and reminded me of an other propaganda picture I saw last year where they had books written in German and they drew Jewish people as rats to tell children that they are like rats by dehumanizing them by calling them that.
Charles Thomas was a young private of the British army during World War 2. He signed up for the army in 1939. Since returning from war he has been quite a serious and sometimes cold person as he has seen his friends killed beside him and has killed men with his bare hands.
My reaction to this soldier was that he looks like a very young man and friendly because of his genuine smile. After reading about him I was surprised of the thing that he has done and witnessed during world war two. It just comes and shows how even the young and innocent are capable of doing so much war. It reminded me of the pictures I looked at in class today of the other young soldiers who don't look like they are ready to kill.
This cartoon mocks the intentions of the Axis powers during World War II, by showing Hitler cutting the world into pieces like a cantaloupe to share with Hirohito and Mussolini.
My reaction to this photo was how they drew the charters they made them obscene and ridiculous looking because they were the villains and they make them crush the cantaloupe and represent it as the world because the picture portrays all three against the world.
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